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Welcome to the City of Minneapolis office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy newsletter. Here you will find information on program and partner related news and updates, opportunities, events and special announcements.
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News
Too Local to Fail – Listen to Webinar Recording on COVID-19 Impacts on the Creative Sector
The Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce hosted a panel with the Office of Arts Culture and the Creative Economy on the impact of COVID-19 on the creative sector. The panel discussion focused on how the shutdown for the COVID-19 crisis has impacted artist entrepreneurs, creative businesses, and arts and cultural nonprofit organizations and discussed the barriers an constraints faced by the workforce within the creative sector. The panelists were Carl Swanson, Associate Dir. of Springboard for the Arts, Wendy Holmes, Senior Vice President, Consulting and Strategic Partnerships, Artspace and Gulgun Kayim, Dir. Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, City of Minneapolis.
Q&A with MN DEED Commissioner Grove on Creative Economy
On Thursday, 5/28 at 12:00 pm, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development Commissioner Steve Grove will talk with artists, creative workers and culture bearers about the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on Minnesota’s creative economy. No advance registration is necessary. To join the call on Thursday, call: 415-655-0003 PIN Code: 969-724-973.
Topics for questions for this session may include:
- Unemployment Insurance for self-employed creative workers
- Challenges specific to arts-based small businesses
- Opportunities for the creative workforce to engage in Minnesota’s relief and recovery efforts
Please submit your question by Tuesday, May 26 at 12:00 p.m. by completing this form.
CARES Act Table of Federal Arts Funding Opportunities
 This helpful table breaks down the CARES Act so you can determine which funding opportunities apply to you, whether you represent a nonprofit organization, a governmental agency, a commercial arts company, a self-employed gig worker, or just a taxpayer. The table is regularly updated and links to helpful FAQs are listed on the last page.
Support Freelance Immigrant Theatre Artists Impacted by COVID-19
Photo of Cha See by Joseph Marzullo/WENN
Lighting designer Cha See (one in two, What to Send Up When It Goes Down) and scenic designer Kimie Nishikawa (The Headlands, The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll'd) have teamed to help support immigrant theatre artists financially impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. With a campaign goal of $20,000, the fund will release $500 micro grants to as many artists impacted by theatre closures and cancellations as possible.
See and Nishikawa, who are both immigrant designers based in Brooklyn, created the fund after seeing a need among freelance OPT- and O1-visa holders working in the theatre. While legally allowed to work, visa holders do not have the same access to state unemployment benefits. You can donate and learn more here.
Rebuilding a Better Theatre Industry Post-Pandemic
Read a punch list from Genevieve Beller on how to pivot the theatre industry to create a better, stronger, and more equitable industry to return to.
In It for the Long Haul: SMU Data Arts Examines How Nonprofit Arts Can Adapt to New Economic Realities
New report from SMU DataArts looks at how arts and cultural organizations can consider adapting to new realities. The report is at aimed at helping arts and cultural organizations consider key questions and variables as they plan for reopening and a post-COVID-19 future, this report estimates the pandemic’s effect on the nonprofit arts sector and identifies three critical propositions and four prompting questions for consideration.
The National Arts Drive: June 6, 2020
The National Arts Drive is an online & offline grassroots movement and fundraising campaign to bring awareness and financial support to local artists on a national scale. On June 6, 2020, artists in select cities across the U.S, Canada and Mexico are encouraged to display, perform and showcase their creativity from driveways, balconies, windows, stoops, front lawns, or participating local small businesses (where applicable and safe) during a three-hour period. Community supporters are invited to drive their city blocks and suburban streets to see, hear, and support the artists, performers, musicians, and designers living in their community from a safe distance.
Worried About Closed Schools and Learning Loss? The Arts Can Help
Photo credit: Gabe Pierce
Read this article from International Arts + Mind Lab on how art can help students learn better and how to use the arts to boost learning.
COVID-19 Resources
Applications Open: Self-Employed Creative Entrepreneurs Eligible for Hennepin County Grants
 Photo credit: Emily Johnson Studio
Self-Employed creative entrepreneurs are eligible for $3,000 grants through the Hennepin County small business relief program. Applications open now through May 29.
Businesses with no employees will be able to apply for grants from Hennepin County's Small Business Relief Program. Check the Hennepin County small business website for application details. Self-employed creatives are eligible to apply.
Resources for Art Therapists during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The American Art Therapy Association (AATA) is committed to supporting our community of art therapists during this time of crisis related to the COVID-19 pandemic. See their list of Covid-19 resources for art therapists here.
Free Therapy for Women of Color
If you are a woman of color and need therapeutic support, please visit DRK Beauty Healing to access clinicians who have committed to giving some free therapy hours.
Bystander Intervention Training
Hollaback! provides trainings on how to do your part to protect your neighbors and co-workers when bias and harassment collide in front of you.
Propel Nonprofits Webinar Series
Propel for Nonprofits is a great resource during normal times but they are also offering a series of webinars to help nonprofits weather this crisis. Check out their learning opportunities here.
The Local Leader's Toolkit: A Strong Towns Response to the Pandemic
Strong Towns released a new ebook that explains how local communities can recover from the current crisis and use it as an opportunity to begin the process of becoming a Strong Town.
Job Search Resources
CareerForce can help with your job search
All of their services are now being offered online or by phone or email. To find out more, visit Virtual & Interactive Services for Career Seekers on CareerForceMN.com. You'll find many job search resources and online events, including Virtual Career Fairs and more.
Upcoming Webinar: Networking
“Who are you … and why should I care?!” While you’ll rarely get these questions directly, they’re on the minds every person you meet. The trouble is, if your personal introduction doesn’t tell them what they want to know, nothing else you say later matters. Join us for a fresh and fun new look at how to craft an unforgettable introduction & turn even virtual meetings into meaningful connections.
Two sessions available. Register below:
COVID-19 Learning Opportunities
Upcoming Webinar: “Focus on the Basics During Crisis: Organizational Survival and Sustainability"
Join the Independent Sector for an upcoming webinar. As the disrupting impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world for ever, mission-driven organizations are facing some very tough decisions ahead. While there is no doubt that emergency or disaster financial support is crucial, it is only a temporary solution and not a panacea. Numerous organizations in the sector have been in survival mode even before this crisis and managed to buy time and sugarcoated their problems. As painful as might be, there is no better time for organizations to really evaluate the situation and finally act.
WHEN: Tuesday, May 26 from 1:00 - 2:00 pm CDT
Upcoming Webinar: "Reopening Town Hall"
Join the National Association of Counties for the first in a series of virtual town halls on reopening America's counties and how county leaders can safely transition local communities and county workforces to a new normal.
WHEN: Wednesday, May 27 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm CDT
Upcoming Webinar: Dim Sum Dialogues: Addressing the Impact of COVID-19 on the Creative Community”
Join the International Chinese Fine Arts Council for an upcoming webinar. The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear that the fear of contracting disease has an ugly cousin: racism. As the coronavirus has spread through the United States, discrimination against Asian – along with Black and Latinx – communities have followed closely behind. Furthermore, the details of the pandemic’s impact has brought to light the striking wider economic disparities in various industries. Among those made vulnerable are members of the creative community – whose livelihoods are threatened by the disappearance of the gig and performance economy. Through Dim Sum Dialogues, we hope to facilitate a platform for social exchange through visibility, conversation, and unity.
WHEN: Thursday, May 28 at 12:00 PM CDT
Upcoming Webinar: "Coronavirus Response: Building a Future that Reimagines Systems for Justice"
Join Grantmakers in the Arts for an upcoming webinar. We will hear from funders and PSO leaders who are calling for and working toward a more liberated future of grantmaking. Together, we will explore what is necessary to re-imagine systems, power, and practice in response to this pandemic and the ongoing crisis of racial inequality.
WHEN: Tuesday, June 16 at 1:00 pm CDT
Upcoming Event: Virtualized Summit 2020
Join VIRTUALIZED, a special live online event designed to prepare you for our digital-first future. Kicking off with a special live keynote webinar featuring leading experts in webinar and experiential marketing, it’s followed by a 5-part on-demand webinar certification course that will teach you how to build amazing digital experiences for your audience that engage across the entire customer journey.
WHEN: Thursday, July 23 at 1:00 pm CDT
Webinar On Demand: "Tips for Accessible Online Learning"
Online learning has provided much needed opportunities for arts organizations to continue programming during COVID-19 related closures, but without attention to design, they can also present accessibility issues for participants with disabilities. Join Open Door Arts to review concrete tips, strategies, and resources to make your online programming more accessible.
Webinar On Demand: "Reopening the Performing Arts: Event Safety in the COVID-19 Era"
Based on the recently released Event Safety Alliance Reopening Guide, this webinar will explore how to determine when to reopen, how to communicate with audiences, how to ensure a sanitized venue, and most importantly, all of the considerations to keep everyone safe, from front-of-house to back stage.
Opportunities
Arts Endowment Our Town Program Funding
The National Endowment for the Arts has posted Our Town funding guidelines.
Our Town is the National Endowment for the Arts’ creative placemaking grants program. Through project-based funding, we support projects that integrate arts, culture, and design activities into efforts that strengthen communities by advancing local economic, physical, and/or social outcomes. Successful Our Town projects ultimately lay the groundwork for systemic changes that sustain the integration of arts, culture, and design into local strategies for strengthening communities. These projects require a partnership between a local government entity and nonprofit organization, one of which must be a cultural organization; and should engage in partnership with other sectors (such as agriculture and food, economic development, education and youth, environment and energy, health, housing, public safety, transportation, and workforce development). Cost share/matching grants range from $25,000 to $150,000, with a minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount.
Application Deadline: August 6, 2020
Register for How to Apply and Prepare a Project Proposal Webinar on June 17 at 1:00 pm CDT.
Coming up: Virtual Community Office Hours
Community members are welcome to reserve virtual 'Office Hour' time with the Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy team.
Join Gulgun Kayim, Director of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy on Fridays from 9:00 am -10:30 a.m,Teeko Yang, Creative CityMaking Project Manager on Wednesdays from 10:00 am to Noon, and Brenda Kayzar, owner of Urbane DrK Consulting on Wednesdays from 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm for virtual community office hours.
Reservations are necessary! Upcoming dates and contact information below:
For meetings with Gulgun Kayim: e-mail Gulgun.Kayim@minneapolismn.gov to notify that you will be attending and call: 612-710-2232 on Friday, May 29 at your confirmed time between 9:00am-10:30am.
For meetings with Teeko Yang: e-mail Teeko.Yang@minneapolismn.gov to notify that you will be attending and call: 612-271-4960 on Wednesday, June 3 at your confirmed time between 10:00am-Noon.
For meetings with Brenda Kayzar: e-mail urbanedrk@gmail.com to notify that you will be attending and call: 612-730-7913 on Wednesday, May 27 at your confirmed time between 1:00 and 2:30pm.
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